You call your mechanic to schedule an appointment and drive directly to the shop for the inspection. After parking your car on the street, you go inside the shop to let the mechanic know it is parked outside.
By the time you go back to your car, you have a ticket for an expired sticker on your vehicle. Fortunately, the General Assembly amended the law on July 1, For a complete list of the rejection criteria for motor-driven cycles and motorized pedalcycles, please reference Section Quality Assurance Officers are assigned to specific geographic areas.
Upon passing a safety inspection, most passenger cars and light trucks will receive an inspection sticker valid for one year from the month of inspection or one year from the expiration of the current inspection sticker on the vehicle. Since , Pennsylvania no longer requires that the inspection sticker expiration and vehicle registration expiration coincide for annually inspected vehicles.
Vehicle owners can request that their inspection and registration expirations match, but this may result in a shortened inspection cycle initially. The chart for annually inspected vehicles below can be used to determine whether requesting a coordination of inspection and registration expirations will result in a short inspection cycle.
Annually Inspected Vehicles Chart. Annually inspected vehicles with a temporary registration and semi-annually inspected vehicles will be issued an inspection expiration in accordance with the charts below:. Inspection periods for motorcycles are governed by Pennsylvania law. Motorcycle Inspection Chart.
To file a complaint against an official PennDOT safety inspection station you should contact the Quality Assurance Officer that is assigned to your county. A vehicle subject to inspection, which has been outside this commonwealth continuously for 30 days or more and which, at the time of reentering this commonwealth, does not bear a currently valid certificate of inspection, is not required to be inspected until 10 days after reentering this commonwealth.
PA Code Title 75 Chapter Frequently Asked Questions. Safety Inspector Recertification. PA Emissions Inspection Website. The sticker is good up until the last day of that month.
In the above photo you can see a the sticker has a monthly indicator of 3 March and a yearly indicator of 17 The above stickers are valid up to the last day of March Starting April 1, this sticker would be expired and no longer valid. There is no "grace period" when a vehicle fails inspection.
If a vehicle fails but still has a currently valid inspection sticker it can still be legally driven until that sticker expires. State inspection mechanics are taught that they should never scrape off an old sticker until the vehicle has passed inspection and has earned a new sticker. If the sticker on the vehicle has already expired and it fails inspection, it cannot be legally driven until it passes inspection.
The vehicle must sit until the necessary repairs are made, though there is no time limit on how long it can sit. Here is a closer look at everything checked during an annual NC safety inspection and the services you might need to pass. When you are due for your next state inspection, visit your nearest Chapel Hill Tire location.
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